Mahima Sukhdev

The city is loud: sometimes it buzzes, sometimes it blares, but all the time it makes itself heard. And Mumbai, with its 18 million people crammed into a narrow strip of land, is louder than most.

She regarded her beauty
From a distance
With a wry humour
Like a worn performer
Of a sleight-of-hand trick

There they are again
Those citizens of nowhere,
Blazing through the skies
(Sigh, roll your eyes)